What should happen after the PRD has been approved?

What should happen after the PRD has been approved?

Approval of a PRD establishes an agreed product baseline for the next stage of work. It does not mean every technical detail is settled or that requirements can never change. The next step is to turn the documented outcomes into a feasible design and a sequence of verifiable implementation tasks.

Develop the supporting design documents

Use the PRD to discuss system architecture, technology choices, data ownership, database relationships, and API boundaries. In a wedding app, event-specific RSVPs should remain consistent across the guest journey, data model, and endpoint contract.

Develop interface flows and important states alongside those technical decisions. Resolve contradictions while changes are still easy to discuss.

AI can draft alternatives and identify gaps, but the team should review decisions against the approved scope and constraints.

Plan small, complete implementation increments

Break the first release into workflows with clear acceptance criteria. A first slice might let an organizer create a wedding and see it on a dashboard. Later slices can add events, tasks, and invitations.

Identify dependencies and choose a sequence that reaches useful checkpoints. Include necessary permission checks, failure behavior, and verification work in each slice rather than postponing them indefinitely.

Store the current documents where contributors and coding assistants can find them.

Build, verify, and maintain alignment

For each increment, provide the relevant PRD sections, design references, and technical context. Review the resulting changes and test the agreed behavior.

When implementation reveals a product question, resolve it and update affected documents before continuing with assumptions. Keep deployment and feedback plans connected to the first release’s goals.

The approved PRD becomes the starting reference for delivery, while ongoing evidence determines which details need refinement.